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He grew up at 22 Wallace Street, a long goal kick from Dumbarton Football Club Stadium.

He went to Knoxland school.

According to friends and family, as a teenager, he loved driving round in his dad’s Ford Zephyr and took it as a challenge to see how many of his friends he could get in.

Although he had no brothers or sisters, his wider family still stay in the Dumbarton area: cousins Hamish, Colin, Katrina, Moira and Margaret from the Hosie side and Isabel Cantely from his mother’s side, the Hutchinsons.

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Callum served his apprenticeship at Dewrance in Dumbarton and at the age of 19 was relocated to the new town of Skelmersdale in Lancashire when the Dumbarton factory closed, along with many other Dumbarton men.

He rose to works director before being made redundant and setting up his own successful manufacturing business HH Valves.

He met his future wife Pat in Southport in 1965 and they were married in 1969. Half of Dumbarton descended on Southport for the wedding.

They were together for 53 years, 49 of them married. and had two children: Andrew, 45, and Alison, 43. Granddaughter Ella was the apple of his eye.

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He loved his football and played to a high standard. His introduction to Dumbarton FC came as a young boy in the early 1950s, when he attended games at Boghead with his father and grandfather James Hosie.

He was a Rangers supporter and had left early on the day of the Ibrox disaster in January 1971, having been standing close to Stairway 13.

On moving to England he became an Everton season ticket holder for 40 years.

In 2008 he got the opportunity to invest in Dumbarton Football Club and led a consortium who bought the majority shareholding.

This followed a long history of Hosie family involvement in the club. His grandfather was an original A shareholder and his uncle John Hosie was club secretary for many years.

He joined his cousin Colin Hosie on the board and formed lasting friendships with Alan Jardine, John Kane and the late Gilbert Lawrie – true Dumbarton FC men.

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He experienced some great moments, notably the Irn-Bru bus through the town when the club won the Scottish 3rd Division in 2009. He was too ill to see them relegated last weekend.

Although he lived in England, Callum never forgot his Scottish roots and became well known for the packages of square sausage and crusty rolls that he would take down from John Lang’s and Sloan’s butchers.

He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February 2017 and battled hard for 16 months against one of the most deadly forms of cancer before succumbing on May 14.

Callum’s family are raising money for Cancer Research UK and donations can be made at justgiving.com/callumhosiefoundation.

The Sons paid tribute to him in a short statement on their website last week.

A Dumbarton FC spokesman said: “It is with very deep sadness that we announce that Dumbarton FC director Callum Hosie has died.

“All connected with Dumbarton FC – staff, directors, players, the trust and fellow supporters – send their deepest sympathies and condolences to Callum’s family and to his many friends at this extremely difficult time.

“Callum will be missed by everyone connected to the club and by the large number of people who knew and valued him in his neighbourhood and well beyond.”

Dumbarton FC chairman John Steele added: “We are all deeply saddened by Callum’s passing. Everyone connected with the club sends our condolences and warmest wishes to the Hosie family.

“Their association with Dumbarton is long and deep. We appreciate all that Callum did for the football club and his heartfelt wish that we should continue to thrive long into the future.”